Acceptance Quote by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!”

— W.O. Makora

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and…

— Kurt Tucholsky

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

— Albert Einstein

Take as long as you need to overcome something, whether it takes you for long, that is your time. Take as long as necessary.

— Shirley

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For…

— Francis Bacon

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.

— Montague Burton

“The old dead coals fell to the wayside, warm ones sat glowing weakly on the edges; but the hot new ones, red and burning,…

— Babara Wood

Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

— Chevy Chase

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should…

— Devendra Banhart